The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

The title is confusing. Sounds like no Irish people have ever made it to the end- doubtless fell to the obstacles of the innumerable pubs along the route.
Really odd phrasing to mean she was first place out of Irish people.

[The Brain]

Define Irish people.

[crazy canuck]

The title is confusing. Sounds like no Irish people have ever made it to the end- doubtless fell to the obstacles of the innumerable pubs along the route.
Really odd phrasing to mean she was first place out of Irish people.

And about three seconds into the clip all was made clear. 

[grumbler]

The title is confusing. Sounds like no Irish people have ever made it to the end- doubtless fell to the obstacles of the innumerable pubs along the route.
Really odd phrasing to mean she was first place out of Irish people.

And about three seconds into the clip all was made clear. 

Yes.  I watched the vid just because the title seemed to be implying the impossible.

[Tamas]

Congrats you two, you have been: clickbaited.

Old people

[crazy canuck]

Congrats you two, you have been: clickbaited.

Old people

Lesson learned - never trust something Yi posts. Got it.

[Savonarola]

I've been reading a book about information.  The author started to discuss English language dictionaries, their origins and ultimately the Oxford English Dictionary.  Once a word, or a meaning, enters the Oxford English Dictionary it can never be taken out (although it can be recategorized as rare or obsolete.)  The example he used was "Hallucinate", which appears in two of the earliest English dictionaries, Robert Cawdrey's "Table Alphabeticall" (1604) and Henry Cockeram's "English Dictionarie" (1623).  In those cases one of the definitions is "To Deceive".  The only attestation that we have that Hallucinate ever meant "To deceive" is found in early dictionaries; it's found in no other writing of any kind.  That definition is still listed in The Oxford English Dictionary.

(As is the modern meaning of AI tools hallucinating; so long past the time when AIs hallucinate that meaning will still be part of the OED.)

[Razgovory]

I have a real job now!  I also have made a point to refrain from spitting or sneezing into the batter, breading or deep fryer.  I am very proud to have only messed up like six times.

[Josquius]

I think this is most of us.



Harder to think of a job that couldn't be so represented.

[Razgovory]

You're a typist?

[mongers]

Do we have a suitable thread for recycling and local environmental matters?

I ask because I accidentally gotten into some water recycling and wonder if anyone here had experience with home systems?

[Sheilbh]

Nothing I do at work is important

[Tonitrus]

I think that the job that I had would usually have been represented by a squirrel.

[HVC]

I think that the job that I had would usually have been represented by a squirrel.

you played with nuts?

[Tonitrus]

I think that the job that I had would usually have been represented by a squirrel.

you played with nuts?

In a manner of speaking...but probably not what you're thinking.